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Christian Müller FRHistS is a German historian previously residing in Ningbo, China. His research focuses on global connections between the West and Asia from the early modern period to the 21st Century, emphasizing imperialism, transnationalism, normative orders, labour mobility, travel writing, encounters between civilizations, curiosity, and identities.

Müller has a life-long affiliation to University College Oxford. In November 2018, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Education

Between 1995 and 1998, Müller studied history, Law, Politics, Germanic languages at Heidelberg University. In 1999, he completed his Master of Studies in Modern History and Political thought at University College, Oxford. Between 1999 and 2002, he studied History and Germanic Languages at Heidelberg University for a Master of Arts. Between 2003 and 2007, he was a doctoral student in history at the same university.

Academic career

In Europe

Müller was a Junior Research Group Leader and Lecturer in Modern History at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the University of Münster (2008–12). He was a Visiting Researcher at Ghent University (2011–13) and a lecturer in history, Culture and Communications at HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Göttingen (2014–15). In Göttingen, he was writing a book entitled The Politics of Expertise: The Institutionalization of Transnational Legal and Social Networks in Europe, 1840–1914. However, this book project was aborted with his move to China.

In China

Müller went to Ningbo, China in August 2015. He was an Associate Professor in Modern European and International History at UNNC (2015–2023). He worked as the Director of Research at School of International Studies, co-director of the Centre for Advanced International Studies, and the Director of the Global Institute for Silk Roads Studies (2018–2023) of this university. At UNNC, Müller received Lord Dearing Award (2020), Merit prize of "Four knows" of Ningbo Spirit Translation Competition (September 2020), and Vice-Chancellor's Medal of the University of Nottingham (June 2018).

He has been an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since July 2016. Since September 2018, he has held Visiting fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford. Since May 2022, he has been a Fellow of the Peer Review College at Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

In China, Müller has previously worked with, guest lectured, or disseminated research findings at the Ningbo University, Tinyi Ge Library, Fudan University, and Princeton University Press' China division.

Works

Books

• Travel Writings on Asia. Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge across the East, c. 1200 to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), with Matteo Salonia
• Grenzüberschreitende Religion: Vergleichs- und Kulturtransferstudien zur neuzeitlichen Geschichte (Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht Verlage, 2014), with Thies Schulze
• The Invention of Industrial Pasts: Heritage, Political Culture and Economic Debates in Great Britain and Germany, 1850–2010 (Wissner Verlag, 2013), with Peter Itzen
• Königin Viktoria und ihre Zeit (Muster-Schmidt Verlag, 2004), with Edgar Feuchtwanger

Selected articles

• "Corinne Chaponnière and Henry Dunant, The Man of the Red Cross." Social History of Medicine (2023).
• "And What Do We Know About China? The International Labour Office, Albert Thomas and Republican China, 1919–1930." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China 28.1 (2018): 101–122.
• "Peaks of Internationalism in Social Engineering: A Transnational History of International Social Reform Associations and Belgian Agency, 1860–1925."Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 90.4 (2012): 1297–1319, with Jasmien Van Daele.
• "Designing the model European—Liberal and republican concepts of citizenship in Europe in the 1860s: The Association Internationale pour le Progrès des Sciences Sociales." History of European Ideas 37.2 (2011): 223–231.

Selected book chapters

• "German Dreams of Empire in the Far East: The German Expeditions to the East and Ferdinand von Richthofen’s Encounters with Asia, 1850–1880." In Travel Writings on Asia: Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore (2022): 175–209.
• "Between Adoption and Resistance: China’s Efforts of ‘Understanding the West’, the Challenges of Transforming Monarchical Legitimacy and the Rise of Oriental Exceptionalism, 1860–1910." In International Flows in the Belt and Road Initiative Context: Business, People, History and Geography (2020): 219–252.
• "The Politics of Expertise: The Association Internationale pour le Progrès des Sciences Sociales. Democratic Peace Movements and International Law Networks in Europe 1858–75." In Shaping the Transnational Sphere: Experts, Networks, and Issues (c. 1850–1930). New York: Berghahn Books (2014).

References

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3. "博物馆出圈路". 文摘报. 13 May 2021.
4. ^ 俞素梅 (20 May 2020). "国际对话栏目"Tianyi Talking"首期 告诉你中西两座书楼的异同". 宁波晚报•数字报刊平台. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
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6. ^ "讲座 | 当代视野下的历史遗产：古代中国政治文化何以延续千年？". 澎湃新闻. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
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8. ^ "Christian Mueller". University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
9. "Current Fellows & Members | RHS". The Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
10. Itzen, Peter; Müller, Christian, eds. (2013). The Invention of Industrial Pasts: Heritage, political culture and economic debates in Great Britain and Germany, 1850–2010 (PDF). Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag. p. 173. Christian Müller is a Junior Research Group Leader and lecturer in Modern History at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics", Westfälische Wilhelms‐University Muenster. He was...Visiting Scholar at Ghent University, Belgium. His research focuses on the history of political, legal and cultural internationalism and on discourses of suffrage and citizenship in the 19th and early 20th centuries... His current project enquires into transnational interpersonal networks on social and legal reform and the evolving of scientific expertise as an institutionalised political force from the 1840s to the First World War.
11. Shaping the Transnational Sphere: Experts, Networks, and Issues from the 1840s to the 1930s. Berghanhn Books. 2015. pp. 294–295. ISBN 978-1-78238-358-1. Christian Müller is Lecturer in History, Culture and Communications at the University for Applied Sciences and Arts (HAWK), Göttingen. He is currently writing a book entitled The Politics of Expertise: The Institutionalization of Transnational Legal and Social Networks in Europe, 1840–1914. His publications on internationalism include 'Designing the Model European – Liberal and Republican Concepts of Citizenship in the 1860s', History of European Ideas 37 (2011), 223–31, and, together with Jasmien van Daele, 'Peaks of Internationalism in Social Engineering, 1860– 1925', Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis – Special Issue 'Beyond Belgium' (2012).
12. ^ "宁波大学外国语学院&宁波诺丁汉大学联合学术沙龙讲座顺利举行-外国语学院". Ningbo University. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
13. "宁波图书馆2021年9月活动安排". 宁波图书馆. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
14. Travel Writings on Asia: Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present. Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies. Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. pp. xii. doi:10.1007/978-981-19-0124-9. ISBN 978-981-19-0123-2. S2CID 249557112. Christian Mueller is Associate Professor for Modern European and International History at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He teaches European as well as global, imperial, and transnational history in the modern era with a focus on European imperialism and subaltern responses to European Empires in Asia and Africa. Christian works on the history of internationalism, imperialism, and humanitarianism since the 1840s and is particularly interested in the rise of modern internationalism, the early history of the Red Cross from a global perspective, European empires and humanitarianism in East Asia, and comparative imperial history under the League of Nations. He has published widely on topics of political, social, and cultural history in the long nineteenth century. Christian is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Co-Director of the Centre for Advanced International Studies, and Director of the Global Institute for Silk Road Studies at UNNC.
15. "Prizes". School of International Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNNC.
16. 孙遇洲. "青年学者的视野与关怀——记2022年复旦大学世界史青年论坛". 新浪财经. Retrieved 2023-03-02. 宁波诺丁汉大学副教授克里斯蒂安·穆勒（Christian Müller）的《全球性的宁波：地方意识的观察与全球史的"空间转向"，1850–1950》（Global Ningbo — Observations on the Sense of Place and the "Spatial Turn" in Global History, 1850 – 1950），以处于全球、跨国和地方交叉地带的"空间"（space）——宁波为例，考察宁波的全球化历程中的复杂性。

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